No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.